Letters to the Editor: Romney and Brown specialize in dishonesty, President Obama seeks socialist agenda

Former Longmeadow High School teacher John Fitzgerald, seen here raising money for the Longmeadow Educational Excellence Fund, has little faith in Republicans Mitt Romney and Scott Brown.Cory White photo

As we head toward the final days of the 2012 election, I am struck by the dishonest quality of two of the Republican candidates asking for public support.

Mitt Romney, the Republican candidate for president, can best be described as a liar.

He seems to have no respect for truth telling or the historical memory of his potential constituents.

Consider his shifting positions on global warming. Romney told voters in June 2011 at a town hall meeting after announcing his candidacy. “I can’t prove [it], but I believe based on what I read that the world is getting warmer, and number two, I believe that humans contribute to that.”

Four days later radio windbag and thug, Rush Limbaugh blasted Romney on his show, saying, “Bye-bye nomination. Bye-bye nomination, another one down. We’re in the midst here of discovering that this is all a hoax. . . And we still have presidential candidates who want to buy into it.”

By October 2011, Romney had done an about-face. “My view is that we don’t know what’s causing climate change on this planet, and the idea of spending trillions and trillions of dollars to try and reduce CO2 emissions is not the right course for us,” he told an audience in Pittsburgh, then he advocated for aggressive oil drilling.

And on the day after the Republican National Convention, he began moving back toward his June 2011 position. (Source: Scientific American, November, 2012.)

The Republican Party’s candidate for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts is not much better in the veracity department. Scott Brown’s specialty is fraud.

He claims to represent the average guy, but takes millions of dollars from Wall Street interests to run a campaign of smoke and mirrors. He drives around in a truck and waves at the camera. Then votes for the interests of the very rich.

He talks about bi-partisanship, but votes to make Senator Mitch McConnell, the minority leader in the Senate. Here is what Brown’s friend, McConnell, said about President Obama, “The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.” (Source: National Journal, 23 October 2010.)

Does that sound like a bi-partisan approach? Brown supports McConnell and McConnell supports Brown.

Brown and Romney’s campaigns remind me of the Wizard of Oz. Thoughtful readers will recall that the “Wizard of Oz” was a humbug. He was able to fool a bunch of ignorant Winkies and Munchkins, a brainless scarecrow, a tin man, and a cowardly lion, but he was no match for Dorothy Gale and her little dog, Toto. They dared to look behind the curtain and through the smoke and mirrors.

Perhaps it is time to send both Romney and Brown on a one-way trip from Oz to reality by way of the ballot box on Nov. 6.

– JOHN J. FITZGERALD, Longmeadow

President Obama seeks socialist agenda

Dr. Gegory Galligan thinks President Obama wants to transform the United States from a super-power by distributing income and power throughout the global population. The Republican file | Don Treeger

By demonizing those who disagree with him, President Barack Hussein Obama seeks decline and radical change, transforming the U.S. from a super-power by distributing income and power throughout the global population.

President Obama’s significant character defects interfere with his office. Emphasizing his own importance, he is primarily driven his own experiences and status, resulting in deliberate deception and misstatements.

The federal deficits have been well over a trillion dollars in each of his four years, raised the unsustainable accumulated debt, mostly owed to China and India, to over $16 trillion.

Currently, 27 million people remain unemployed, or have stopped looking for work; 15 million Americans live at poverty level. Obama’s “fair share” concept, which is economic socialism, has always failed throughout history. Economic socialism not only bankrupts nations, it forces people to become reliant on the government, which erodes self-respect, sense of self worth, work ethic and independence. Obama’s pathway is class envy and class warfare.

My physician father was a pioneer in preventive medicine, my mother was a medical technologist, my wife is a registered nurse, and our two daughters are surgeons. My son is an integral part of the Romney campaign. I am a thoracic surgeon and voice care specialist with 17 years of training after high school. When patients come to see me, they expect me to do what is in their best interest, and I try to do it no matter how long it takes. Health care needs reform but Obamacare is a disaster.

The most significant way to reduce healthcare expenditures is to implement malpractice reform. The way Obamacare “saves costs” is to reduce payments to providers. Obama care has already forced many to stop taking care of Medicare patients.

Obamacare is central government-controlled, one size fits all plan. Romneycare is working in Massachusetts because it fits our individual state’s healthcare needs and is flexible to meet changes.

This $2.7 trillion in projected costs will be recognized by Massachusetts residents as a national “Big Dig.” A special board called the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) of 15 non-medical people will be appointed. They will make medical decisions for all treatment, or no treatment, for more than 300 million people, resulting in the premature disability and death of many patients, especially the elderly. People who require pacemakers, knees or hips won’t get them or biotech companies won’t manufacture medical devices due to surcharges. The government will have access to an individual’s bank account and have the authority to make electronic fund transfers (Items 58 & 59). Obamacare mandates advanced care planning consultations, i.e., death panels for end-of-life planning seminars to be attended by providers (425:4-12). It mandates that cancer hospitals will ration care according to the patient’s age (272:1145). The government will specify which doctors can write an end-of-life order (429:13-25).